jdubya421

Check your phone storage and you wifi/data transmission. The recording is either stored on your phone or transmitted and you can check both.

I also have a fake facebook and my friend suggestions are filled with my real family. I don't even live in the same state. It was odd to me how they knew, but I guess little details can add up to match your online identity and real one.

The thing is that listening =/= recording.

I am fairly sure Instagram does - as well as monitor internet traffic for other devices on the network. There are times where my girlfriend and I will talk about something and she will Google it and then I will get ads. There are times where her and I have tried to talk about something a lot to see if we get ads and sure enough we do. One of those in particular was "ASUS graphics cards". There was another time we drove past these Roxor side by sides and all I said was "oh look those are those side by sides that look like Jeeps" (cause I drive a Jeep). That night got ads for them. I didn't even know they were called "Roxors" at the time and only knew cause I got ads for them. I have also found that disabling IG's permission to my mic stops all this.

I have had an S10 and a Note 10 and I haven't been able to replicate this "bug" with my other fingers or my GF's fingers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Well since there is only 1 major phone release per year it had to go this way. Manufacturers could have easily put it back after taking it away, but phone sales didn't decline.

The standard way you "plug in" your head phones. I would argue that most changes occur because manufacturers change it and consumers adapt. Look at Blu-Ray/HD video: two options on the market and consumers chose what happened. Look at the switch to digital media over analog media (tapes to CD/DVD). It happened when it did because over time consumers switched to digital. Every manufacturer didn't drop the port at the same time - IIRC Apple was the first to do it. People kept buying iPhones and then other manufacturers saw the success and followed through. At the end of the day I am sure it is about the manufacturer saving costs, but consumers kept buying. People can bitch all they want about not having a headphone jack, but the majority of people don't care. I realize I can't change anyone's mind about this, but I seriously have a hard time understanding how anyone can be so averted to BT headphones. I have Bose QC35IIs and Galaxy Buds and I really like the both of them. I have tons of different BT headphones over the years and I would never go back. I use wired on my desktop, but out on the go or at work BT is the way to go.

You would charge wirelessly or listen wirelessly to do both at the same time. If your dongle is breaking you have other issues you need to attend to - this is also a bad argument because if your head phones break or phone breaks you have to buy a new one too. I don't know how you are breaking that dongle. Do people really care about battery life? Name one phone that doesn't make it through a day of use.

truuu haha

In my opinion all of that is a super dumb reason to not like it. Standards change. Most manufacturers just give you the dongle. I am pretty sure Apple doesn't any more, but that is a whole nother thing that lots of people are talking about. I don't think a company needs to give a reason to begin with. Companies are driven by profit, which is given by the consumer. At the end of the day the company does what makes it money and they are all still making money so they don;t need an excuse to remove it. It is like people complaining about semi-trucks on the highway. Stop buying shit and they go away,

Just typed "disk management" into search and its the first and only thing that shows up.

Leave your dongle connected to your head phones - problem solved dude. It is literally the same thing.

fucking thissssssssssssss. I say this exact same thing all the time and every body constantly bitches back. Like, are you seriously filling your phone with .flac files and carrying around a DAC and open back head phones to listen in a quiet room? Otherwise it doesn't matter in the slightest. Most people stream music from Spotify, Google, Apple, etc and use their phone on the go where there is a lot of background noise. I have nice wired head phones and nice BT ones and I much prefer BT. I don't know how people deal with cords on the headphones any more.

Yep. I worked for my university IT department and got to see some of the POs and see the company order site. All the chairs in my build, which was probably well over 300 chairs, were $850 each. I'm sure they didn't pay $850, but that is still way more than I would pay for a chair. Same thing with enterprise level hardware (like the new Mac pro) it ain't meant for us.